Quotes on Sarcasm

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.